As a break from all things Christmassy, and because I had two huge Bramley apples staring accusingly at me from my fridge crisper drawer, I decided to bake a Dorset apple cake* on Sunday afternoon. It's another of those recipes with dozens and dozens of different versions, and I have a good half dozen myself, printed off from the internet. I picked out this recipe from my baking folder first, so used it, and noticed that at some point I'd written 'double the recipe' on it. I didn't do that as I only had the two apples, so this isn't a big substantial cake but will still give 6 to 8 people a goodly slice.
Ingredients:
225g self raising flour, or 225g plain (all purpose) white flour with 1 1/2tsp baking powder added)
110g butter
110g sugar (one of the brown sugar varieties gives the best flavour)
225g apples, (I prefer Bramleys, but any which cook well are fine), peeled, cored and sliced into small chunks.
I heaped tsp cinnamon
1 heaped teaspoon mixed spice
2 beaten eggs
Method:
Grease and line a loose bottomed, 20cm cake tin.
Preheat oven to 170 degrees centigrade or 160 degrees for fan assisted oven/gas mark 3.
Sieve the flour, spices and baking powder (if using) into a bowl and rub in the butter
Stir in the sugar and apple.
Mix in the beaten eggs and stir to make a smooth batter.
Pour into your prepared tin
Bake for around an hour until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out cleanly.
If your cake browns too much to early, cover with some aluminium foil or greaseproof paper.
*For those who are not from UK, this is a traditional recipe named for the south coast county of Dorset from which it came.
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